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BRYN MAWR. PA., THURSDAY. OCfOPER 5,. 1922
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MANY NEW APPOINTMENTS
MADE IN FACULTY
Dr. Bontecou is New Dean; Dr. Theo-
phile Meek to Take Place
of Dr. Baiton
NEW WARDENS APPOINTED
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Twenty-five new appointments have licen
made to the faculty and staff of the Col-
lege for the coming year. Ur. Eleanor
Bontecou, A.B., J.D., has been appointed
acting dean of the College in place of Dean
Smith, who resigned, and Dr. Tb^eophilc
Meek wUl replace Dr. Barton as professor
^ of Semitic Languages and history of re-
ligion. -
Dr. Bontecou is an A.B. of Bryn Mawr,
1913, and J.D., New York University Law
School, 1917. She was* warden of Den-
bigh Hall, 1913-14, was admitted to the
New York Bar in 1919, and was Attorney
and gcM3?Isendr-at-Law, New York, .1919-
22. Dr. Meek is B.A., University of To-
ronto, B.D., McCormick Theological Semi-
nary, Chicago, and Ph.D., University pf
Chicago.
* Members of the faculty who were away
last year: Dr. Leuba, Dr. Wheeler, Dr.
and Mrs. de Lagu'na, Dr. Chew, Dr. Cas-
tro and Dr. Kingsbury have returned. This
year Dr. Tennent, Professor'- Donnelly,
Professor Bascom and Miss Parde have
been granted sabbatical leave of absence.
Dr. Helen Sard Hughes has l>cen appointed
lecturer in English Literature as substitute
for Professor Donnelly. Dr. Hughef is
Ph.D., University of Chicago, and has been
associate professor of English at the State
University of Iowa and at Wellesley Col-
lege. Dr. William Sidney Tangier Smith
has been appointed lecturer ;in geology in
place of Dr. Bascom. Dr. Smith is. Ph.D..
h University of California, and has Wen in-
0 structor in geology in the University ol
California. Dr. Tennent's courses will b*
^-given by Dr. Schrader and Dr. Yates-Rap-
port, of the Department of Biology, while
Miss Parde's courses will be given by Miss
PRESIDENT MARION EDWARDS PARK
FORMAL INAUGURATION TO BE
HELD FOR NEW PRESIDENT
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Trotain of the French Department and
__Mi�s Smith, instructor in French.
Many Academic Appointments Made
^9 First among the new appointments is
( Dr. Walter Llewellyn Bullock, who has
�Lbeen made associate in Italian. He is an
C A.B., M.A., and Ph.D., of Harvard Uni-
versity and has served as a temporary
master at Rugby, England, and as an in-
structor in French at Wellesley. Three
new instructors in English composition
have been appointed: Miss Frances Hig-
ginson Fuller, '19; Miss Marguerite Capen
Hearsey, A. B., Hollins and M.A., Rad-
cliffe, and Mrs. Helene Buhlert Bullock,
A.B., Wellesley and M.A., Radcliffe. Other
new appointments are: Miss Edith Hamil-
ton Lanman, A.B., Radcliffe, M.A., Univer-
sity of California, instructor in Chemistry;
Miss Helen Belle Smith, A.B: and M.A.,
of Wisconsin University, instructor in
French; Miss Anna Schafheitlin, A.B. and
M.A., of McGill University, instructor in
German; and Miss Helen R. Jeters. A.B.,
of the University of California and M.A.,
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Ce.emony for Miss Park to Take
Place October 21
FRESHMAN CUSS IS BY FAR
LARGEST CUSS IN COLLEGE
"BOOK OF JOB" TO BE GIVEN F�OR
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Eastern Pennsylvania Hopes $8000 Profit
From Stuart talker Play .
"The Book of Job" arranged by Stuart
Walker, which the alumnae of Eastern
Pennsylvania are giving in the Academy of
Music, on November 1. for funds for then
regional scholarship, was first played in
1918, when ft un thirty-five performances
It has been rfvived by Mr. Walker now
and is starting on a twenty-weeks' tour;
it will go to Wellesley some time after it
Dr. Marion Edwards Park, Ph.D., will
lie inaugurated President of Bryn Mawr
GeHege on Saturday; October 21, at 11
o'clock, in*the Gymnasium. Addresses will
lie delivered l>y President Angell, of Yale;
President Neilson, of Smith; President
Comfort, of Haverford; Professor Rufus
M. Jones, of the Board and Trustees and
by -President Park.
After the ceremony a buffet luncheon
will be served in the Cloisters, or in Pem-
broke Hall in case of rain, to which all
guests are invited by the College". On the
Friday evening preceding the inauguration
the alumnae will give a dinner in Pembroke
Hall in honor of Miss Park, at which
Elizabeth Niels Bancroft, a classmate of
Miss Park, will act as toastmistrcss.
The committee, in charge of the cere-
mony are Professor Kufus Jones, Mrs
Hand, Miss Marion Reilly, Mr. Thomas
Raeburn White, Mrs. Frances, Mrs. Her-
bert Lincoln Clark -and Miss Anna H.
Todd. Faculty members arc Dr. Huff, Dr
Smith. Dr. Saundcrs. Miss Schcnck and
Dean Maddison. who is secretary.
has appeared here, and is being given for a
scholarship fund by the College Club ol
Pittsburgh, on October 23.
"The Book of Job" as seen by Mr
Walker is divided into three parts: pro-
logue, main, action and epilogue. A great
deal of the effect is gained by lighting. It
has been said of the production, "What the
dramatic representation of this poem makes
clear, as even frequent reading of the poem
may fail to disclose, is the very human
qualities of these men as they discuss th;s
the deepest mystery -of life . . . the
mystery of suffering."
Winifred Dodd and Virginia Norris
to Run 1926 First Four Weeks
Largest in College, the new dark blue
class, enters with about 120 members.
Winifred Dodd and Virginia Norris- are
the two members who .will run the class
for the first two weeks. Miss Dodd was
President of the Self-Government Asso-
ciation of Brearly and Miss Norris comes
from the Agnes Irwin School, Philadelphia.
Fourteen Freshmen enter with scholar-
ships. The new Chinese Scholar is Theo-
dora Yen. ^She succeeds Fiung Kei Hiu,
'22. There are five Alumnae Regional
Scholars: Marietta Bitter, Edith Nicbols,
Barbara Sindall, Mary Tatnall, and Grove
Thomas. The two Trustees Scholars arc
Anna Adams and Anna Lingclbach. Anna
Adams ajgo won the Pennsylvania State
Scholarship. The New England States
Matriculation Scholar is Elizabeth Nowell
and the Lower Mcrion High School
Scholar is Helen Cloyd Quinn. Janet
Preston, who cntfs this year, won the 1921
Pennsylvania and Southern States Scholar-
ship. Finally, Clare Hardy is Bryn Mawr
School Scholar, Carol Cummings is Charles
E. Ellis Scholar, and Ellen Young is
Frances Marion Simpson Scholar.'
Many members of 1926 are relatives of
former students and undergraduates. M.
Arnold is a sister of Isal>cl Arnold, '20;
F. Chase is a sister of Helen Chase, '16
(Mrs. Rufus Rand) ; M. Falk is
of Zip Falk, '10 (Mrs
Coolidge is the sister of Mary Coolidge,
'14; R. Fitzgerald is the sister of A. Fitz-
gerald, '23; F. Jay is the sister of Ellen
Jay, ex-'21 and Nancy Jay. '22; A. John-
ston is the daughter of Mrs. Morris John-
son (Grace Douglas, '02); G. Leewiw is
the sister of S. Leewitz, '24; M. Math^vs
PRESIDENT PARK GIVES
OPENING CHAPE ADDRESS
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College Life to Be Simplified So As
More Time May be Given to <
"Things of the Mind"
TRIBUTE PAID TO MISS THOMAS
l he following is President fork's first
�speech to the College; it tons given on
Wednesday, October 4, at ihe first chapel
of the year:
The first thought in every one's mind
this morning inevitably is the strangeness
of President Thomas' absence from this
platform.on the opening day of the Bryn
Mawr yfcar. By more than her long term
of service Miss Thomas had come to repre-
sent the College itself, yearly throwing open
the doors and welcoming its students
Tljosc of you who were present at Com-
mencement and at the dinner given in Miss .
Thomas' honor later must have felt over-
whelmingly such identification of the presi-
dent with the College not only because the
?'act was repeated again and again by the
speakers, but because the picture of her
qualities and her .activities filled in from
different points of view Iwcamc as we lis-
tened a picture of the activities and quali-
ties of the College itself. And apart from
the emotion of that occasion the identi-
fication is a sound one. It is true that the
College as we know it has been iMiilt up"
by many people, by its founder, Dr. Taylor,
and its Boards of Trustees and Directors,
by the wise and serene Dr. Rhoads, its
first president, by the � faculty and deans,
by the students, graduate and undergrad-
uate mcrgiftg fast into the body of alumnae,
but all the time and up to this time one
workman has been constantly working, tak-
ing" up materials that others laid down,
persisting in plans where others flagged,
searching for the new thing, which the
student ol" the new year needed, a spend-
thrift of her time in our behalf. It is
not strange that Miss Thomas' imprint is
on almost everything which we possess*
this morning. It is pleasant to think thaf
at the beginning of artothcr year Miss
Thomas will be again at home in Bryn
Mawr and that both those of you who have
known her and those who will go through
this year without knowing her will be
given another chance. You will know at
first hand one of the* great figures in
America.
Mnss Thomas, as 1 have said, has grown
to be a kind of symbol of the College to
us all in a sense that no one else can cvet
be. Yet in the years that follow her ad*
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1925 PARODIES "REUBEN, REUBEN'
ON PARADE NIGHT
:alk is the sister
K. N/W) ; II.
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Song Divulged Three Times
Three days of tireless, although quiet,
sleuthing' brought victory to the Sopho-
mores, who parodied the Freshman song
when they sang, it under Pembroke arch
last night. The song, whose tune and
words 1925 obtained three times, is written
to "Reuben, Rculicn" and the words are:
"Sophomores, Sophomores, we've been
thinking
What a fine thing it would be
If in spite of all your sleuthing
Our song stayed a mystery!" �
The Sophomore parody is an excellent-
example of tongue twisting:
"Freshmen, Freshmen, we've been thinking
How astonished you will be
If our slippery, slip-shod sleuthing
Should have solved the mystery."
'1911, 1921, 1924. and 1925 are the only
classes that have ever kept their parade
song.
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